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I have a question about recursive, backward raytracing.
When an incident ray (I) strikes an object at point P, first
the normal (N) is calculated. Light rays are calculated (L1 to Ln
where n is the number of light sources) - these being the light
rays that do not intersect with anything. The reflected ray (R) and
the transmitted ray (T) is calculated from the formulae.
Calling the routine recursively on R and T will return the colours
along the rays (R and T) as rCol and tCol. Each object has its own
colour oCol and each light source has liCol (1 <= i <= n).
The question is:
How do you combine rCol, tCol, oCol and all the liCol's to get
the correct resulting colour to return along the I ray?
All colours are defined as strucures (records) having r, g, b components
between 0 and 1.
If anyone has done this before could you give me a few hints?
--
Adrian Secchia
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Mail bounced, so...
Traditional wisdom says you are almost certainly better off selling it
yourself if you don't mind that extra hassle. Having a trade-in on a purchase
just makes getting the best price from a dealership more confusing.
I assume this is _retail_ bluebook. There are two bluebook prices, one for
retail and one for wholesale. You really want the retail price if you can
get it. The blue books also have adjustments you can make for low mileage
and extras on your particular car. You should look all this stuff up yourself.
Also keep in mind that the blue book prices are averages over the country
that may not apply in your area. For example, blue book prices are low for
California. A better way of finding out how much your car might be worth is
to call around and see what it's selling for (if any used lots have one) or
looking in local papers for similar cars and checking out the prices. It
might be more time efficient to take a small loss (rather than hold out for
6 months for the best price).
I don't know what you mean by "an acquaintance" but I would make darn sure
that I was paid, that is, cashier's check in full before delivery. There's
a real temptation when selling to a pseudo-friend to be more accomodating
than you should. Make sure you get the money and if they hedge about paying
in full at the start (with a cashier's check or cash) then I would go
elsewhere. Rememeber that you can probably sell your car to a used car lot
or wholesaler and get wholesale bluebook. That's probably a safer approach
than selling to a private party.
--
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How can anyone pick the worst Yankee pitcher. In the past 12
years there have been so many.
Does the name Steve "You mean I should try and throw the ball
to the catcher" Trout?
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I've just started programming with the PIC16c57 and I'd like talk to similar
like minded people ? Have you built anything interesting, if so, I'd be
interested in talking about various aspects.
Yes, I already have the application sheets, assembler & simulator.
Cheers,
Stuart
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Ugliest stance of all time has to go to Oscar Gamble. The man would
practically kneel in front of home plate in order to have a small strike
zone! (He's just lucky that strike zone size isn't determined by how big
your afro is:)
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Less Than 40 People (617) 267-1700
40 or more (617) 262-1915
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Wrong, wrong, completely wrong (and a little misleading, too).
White noise is random noise whose energy density is constant for a
constant bandwidth. That is, a 5 Hz wide band at 20 Hz will have precisely
the same amount of energy as a 5 Hz band at 20 kHz.
Pink noise is random noise whose energy density is constant for a constant
precentage bandwidth. Thus, a 5% wide band of noise at 20 Hz (whose
bandwidth is 1 Hz) will contain the same energy as a 5% wide band at 20
kHz (whose bandwidth is 1000 Hz wide).
White noise is often used with spectrum analyzers that have constant
bandwidths, pink noise is used with audio-type real-time analyzers whose
bandwidths are centert-frequency dependent (often described as "1/3
octave" or "1/2 octave" or some such terminology).
White noise, relative to pink noise, has more energy at high frequencies
(at a rate equal to 3 dB per octave). Pink noise, relative to white noise,
has more energy at low frequencies (at a rate equl to, again, 3
db/octave).
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Russell Turpin, as is his wont, has raised some interesting issues
in his struggle with the Christian texts and the Christians.
Unfortunately, he seems to be hoping for simplicity where it is
not available. The lukewarm stew he detects may well be an inevitable
result of the divine mixing himself up with a bunch of losers such
as humanity.
Also unfortunately (perhaps) I have a deadline in two weeks, the
responsibility for which prevents me, in good conscience,
from writing a more considered response and fully entering the
fray, as it were.
Let me then say what I can, briefly.
-----
This point, for the net.browsers who also still read books, is
pursued throughly in Kaufmann, Critique_of_Religion_and_Philosophy.
This is a theological statement worthy of Barth.
Dr Turpin (DD) may wear the black robe of Geneva yet! :-)
This requires the assumption that all interpretations are
equally valid, that there is no way of reasonably distinguishing
among them. I wouldn't make that assumption; I don't think it is
a reasonable assumption.
Michael, and I, and others, read 'the Bible' with Christian
glasses. Among the things that this should imply is that the
NT informs the OT, even to the point of dominanting it. Some
points in the OT (ceremonial & dietary laws) are explicitly
abrogated by the NT texts. To drive Russell Turpin's point with
adequacy, one needs to begin with NT texts (probably from Matthew,
and probably about damnation) (Just trying to help :-) )
This part is, I discover, what most moves me to post:
mls> I am a "radical" Christian *only* in that I take the gospel seriously.
Russell Turpin's 'No' here is misplaced, not to say inappropriate.
Michael's self-description much govern. The equation of radical = liberal,
which seems implied by Russell Turpin is wrong. Radical conservatives are
possible (if sadly lacking in numbers at present). Thomas Merton
was a radical, even though conservative in some ways. St Francis
was a radical, similarly. How many examples are needed?
mls> ... Why don't I and the (myriads of) other Christians like me
mls> tell you something about Christianity? ...
Michael's question gets to a heart of the matter (Klingons have
two hearts, so my metaphor is not mixed, just extraterrestrial :-) )
Russell Turpin (in an earlier post) had said that Michael (Michael's
theological positions, actually) didn't tell him much about Christianity;
Dean Simeon responds (this time gently): 'What do you mean?' More
direct, perhaps, would have been: 'What could you possibly mean?'
The implied rhetorical effort, to separate Michael from the
tradition, is a failure. Michael is in the tradition. If your idea
of the tradition doesn't include him, Change your idea of the tradition!
How can one answer this while staying on the more general issue?
I'm on the other side of the interpretive fence (from Michael)
on this issue, yet '*nothing*' is a hideous overstatement.
One verse is enough to refute it; I'll offer two, from
Paul (of all people):
'In Jesus Christ there is neither male nor female...'(Galatians 3:28
{I don't quote single verses as a rule, and I don't carry
them in my head}) and '*Nothing* shall separate us from the glory of God...'
(roughly, from Romans). [If Russell would promise to convert based
on these or any other verses, I'd promise to get the full context
for any that he requires :-) :-)]
This conclusion does not follow, even in short, from the
argument that goes before. A surprising logical ellipsis.
Dave Davis, ddavis@ma30.bull.com
These are my opinions & activities alone
QOTD:
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Try .exe /s (/s for save screen, /c for config, defaults to /c)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The question is not "If a tree falls in the forest and no one sees or hears,
did it fall?" but rather "How many koalas can that one tree take out???"
---------------------------------------------------------------tim@cpsg.com.au--
--
Tim Fox
CP Software Pty Ltd. (ACN 006 640 133) Ph: +61-3-823-0222
19 Cato Street, East Hawthorn, Fax: +61-3-822-0089
Victoria, Australia, 3123 ACSnet: tim@cpsg.com.au
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: >What exactly does the windows bitmap format look like? I mean, how is
: >the data stored: width, height, no. of colours, bitmap data? I couldn't
: >find anything in ths user manual, is there any other reference material
: >which would give me this information?
: Well, this is *only* a guess: If it goes by the "true" meaning of "bit
: map", then it holds (x,y,c) where x pixel number in th ex-direction, y:
: pixel-number in the y-dir, c: colour.
Come on fellows! The format is quite plainly explained in the manuals.
It's in the "Programmer's Reference, Volume 3: Messages, Structures,
and Macros" (MSC-Dev.kit for 3.1, should be also in the Borland's
manuals) pages 232-241 (depending what you need).
First there is the BITMAPFILEHEADER-struct then the BITMAPINFO which
contains the BITMAPINFOHEADER and the RGBQUAD and then the bitmap
data. AND there is also a example among the example files (MS_SDK).
Hope this helps....
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########################## | Yes, I do have some prior knowledge in this.
########################## | There is nothing dangerous in these dragons,
#### / /// / | they are totally harmless... But my opinion
#### / / / /// /// | is that kicking them might not be the right
#### /// /// / / / /// / | way to test it. So shut up and RUN!
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We have three options with respect to the Constitution:
1. Abide by it.
2. Duly amend it.
3. Abandon those parts of which a majority disapproves.
Of course, since the whole point of the Constitution is to restrain the
will of the majority, and since even in unfettered democracy we have
nothing to fear from minorities, #3 amounts to abandoning the
Constitution altogether.
Which will it be?
---
Mark Pundurs
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So do other parts of the Bible when taken literally - i.e. the Psalms
saying the Earth does not move, or the implication the Earth is flat
with four corners, etc. The Bible was written to teach salvation, not
history or science.
What ones? Paryers for the dead or the intercession of saints? (Which
are taught in 2 Maccabees, Sirach, and Tobit)
By your own subjective judgement. This falling short is your judgement,
and you are not infallible - rather the Church of Jesus Christ is (see 1
Timothy 3.15).
More subjective feelings. This is not a proof of anything more than
one persons feelings.
As I have written time and again, the Hebrew canon was fixed in Jamnia,
Palestine, in 90 AD. 60 years after the foundation of the one, holy,
catholic, and apostolic Church. Furthermore, the opinons of Jerome do
not count. He was neither the Church, or the Pope, or an ecumenical
council, or a council in general, or an insturment of the Magisterium of
the Church. He was a private individual, learned admittedly, but
subject to erro of opinion. And in exlcuding the deuterocanon, he
erred, as Pope Damsus, and the Council of Carthage, and the tradition of
the Fathers, clearly shows, as I pointed out in my previous post.
I suggest you take heed of the last part of the statement, if you want
to take it in the sense you are taking it, that taking away from the
book will cause you to lose heaven.
The order of the Canon is unimportant, it is the content that matters.
None of Jesus' statments exlcude the deuterocanon, which were
interspersed throughout the canon. And remeber, there are some
completely undisputed books, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, Ecclesiatses, Song
of Songs, Job, etc. that are not quoted in the New Testament, which is
not taken as prejudicial to their being inspired.
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I'm looking for some specs for a Toshiba TA6267-BP. It appears
to be a power amp housed in a 7-pin inline package and is used
in my Mitsubishi VCR, circa 1985, as a DC motor controller for
the tape drive.
Checking in the oldest IC Master I have (1990), I don't see it
listed, and it appears to have been discontinued. If anyone
has anything on this part, I'd be *greatly* indebted!
thanks in advance,
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Well, if SHIT means going to the Stanley Cup finals a couple years
ago, I'd rather be shit than a leaf fan.
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..
As Ben says - this re-boost idea is all news to us here. Do you know
something we don't? Please supply a source - it would be nice for
the schedulers of observations to know where the thing is going to
be. These altitude numbers are also way off.
My best source has:
"Minimum ST ALTITUDE in the PMDB is: 573 Kilometers"
"Maximum ST ALTITUDE in the PMDB is: 603 Kilometers"
"Delta ST ALTITUDE in the PMDB is: 3 Kilometers"
(PMDB is Proposal Management Data Base - used to schedule observations.)
..
Could you supply some calculations? You might check some recent
postings that explained that 'a small booster' as suggested does
not now exist, so comparing the mass of something that doesn't
exist to the mass of the OMS fuel seems impossible. The contamination
threat also remains.
..
Longer drag life I can understand, but could you explain the
antenna pointing?
Tell me about it. Although the arrays can be (and are) moved perfectly
well utilizing the second electronics box. Getting them both working
is much desireable so as to reclaim redundancy.
I don't mean to jump on you - helpful suggestions are always welcome
and we all know the more ideas the better, but I do want the true
situation to be described clearly and correctly, lest some get
confused.
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If anyone has a list of companies doing data visualization (software
or hardware) I would like to hear from them. Thanks.
-- krs
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Vintage Brakes
176 Bluefield Ave.
Newbury Park, CA. 91320
(805)498-5527
They reline all types of obsolete motorcycle brake shoes with Ferodo
material.
Place to try:
Deutsches Motorrad Register
8663 Grover Place
Shreveport, LA 71115
(club for all types of two-wheeled German equipment, including
scooters. I periodically see ads for Maico scooter stuff in their
newsletter.)
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Marvin Minsky (hi there) writes of building "perceptrons?" in the 1950s using
motor-driven potentiometers to vary the weights. He reported that the circuits
worked even tho there were wiring errors. (Can you say ROBUST?)
Cadium Sulfide cells vary with light. CMOS or TTL gates provide the SIGMOID
somewhat-linear-yet-somewhat-limiter transfer function often used.
Low power Schottky gates, and earlier gates, has about a gain of X8.
LEDs probably output enough light to easily control CdS cells, even at a
few mA. And paper with dark and light regions, controlled by pencil and
eraser, could also control CdS resistance. The very high input resistance of
CMOS gates may let you charge up 1uF paper/mylar caps to serve as memory.
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Car accessory shops here sell stuff called T-Cut, which is a very fine
cutting paste for paint, and this will remove the dull finish and
minor acratches. It will also remove all the traffic film and stuff that
you probably don't realise is there, and give your paintwork its original
lustre and shine. It can sometimes react badly with metallic paint, though,
so try it out carefully before going to town with the stuff. Afterwards
apply wax polish, and all will be well again.
BTW - don't confuse T-cut with the cutting paste used for grinding in
valves...the principle's the same but the coarseness is vastly different...
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What is fornication? (sex outside of marriage, abuse of sex)
Is not homosexual intercourse outside the context of marriage?
Isn't it an unatural use of what God has given us?
Why is it that homosexuals are using the Grace of God as a license to
practice sin?
For certain persons have crept in unnoticed, those who were long
beforehand marked out for this condemnation, ungodly persons who
turn the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only
Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
Jude 4 (NASB)
What is defined by God as a legitimate marriage?
For this cause a man shall leave his father and his mother, and
shall cleave to his wife; and the shall become one flesh.
Gen 2:24 (NASB)
And He answer and said, "Have you not read, that He who created them
from the beginning MADE THEM MALE AND FEMALE, and said, 'FOR THIS
CAUSE A MAN SHALL LEAVE HIS FATHER AND MOTHER, AND CLEAVE TO HIS WIFE;
AND THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH'? Consequently they are no longer
two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let no
man separate."
Matt 19:4-6 (NASB)
But because of immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let
each woman have her own husband. Let the husband fulfill his duty
to his wife, and likewise also the wife to her husband.
1 Corinthians 7:4,5 (NASB)
I disagree... Every law that is written in Leviticus should be looked at
as sin. That is why we have a need for a savior. I can understand
someone who may not know a particular sin listed in the Levitcal law, but
I would hope that they would repent when confronted with it.
Also I noticed that the preceeding verses say.
Also you shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness during her
menstrual impurity. And you shall not have intercourse with your
neighbors wife, to be defiled with her.
Leviticus 18:19, 20 (NASB)
These verses are just as relevant as:
You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an
abomination.
Leviticus 18:22 (NASB)
Why was God telling the Israelites not to practice such things?
Do not defile yourselves by any of these things; for by all these
the nations which I am casting out before you have become defiled.
For the land has become defiled, therefore I have visited its
punishment upon it, so the land has spewed out its inhabitants.
But as for you, you are to keep My statutes and Judgments, and
shall not do any of these abominations, neither the native, nor
the alien who sojourns among you
Leviticus 18:24-26 (NASB)
He is the Lord... Listen to what he has to say...
Nobody wants to dismiss homosexuals. We do love you, but we don't
agree that what you practice is not sin. You have not truly repented
of your sin. We hate the sin that is within your lives. I hate sin
that is in my life. All Christians should hate the sin that is within
their own lives. Confrontaion with sin should bring about repentance.
Yes I agree with John 3:17, but I also know that Jesus said, "Repent for
the kingdom of heaven is at hand" Matt 3:17. If you don't agree that
homosexuality is sin than how can you repent from it? This means that
you remain in bondage to it. Repent from it and God will set you free.
In His Love,
Mike
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Michael Christensen | Trust the Lord with all your heart,
Senior Product Support Engineer | And do not lean on your own
Procom Technology, Inc. | understanding. Proverbs 3:5 (NASB)
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Ha!
Watch me. It flies. It lands. It gets rebuilt.
That's not what they told us back in the '70's.
1. It isn't a logical follow-on. A logical follow-on would have
been either a Russian "snowfox" type thingey (for the lifting bodies)
or something like MMI's Space Van (or Boeing's TSTO, or the airbreathing
TSTO the military is allegedly _using_ now that probably cost less
to develop than the shuttle does to fly for a year).
Keep that attitude, and it'll be a couple centuries before we get real
access to space, unless another country without all that baggage comes
along and kicks our ass in the space race.
Or NASA HQ. That doesn't give the rest of the program plausible deniability
if we deceide that it wasn't worth the money we've spent, which is by now
probably a lot more than Apollo.
Yes, but it gets sold on the basis of the political statements.
You're saying basically that it met the engineering specs (which is
questionable, IMHO) so it's a success, never mind that you couldn't
get the funding the shuttle eats with those engineering specs in
a thousand years.
You can get hypersonic flight data with an X-15 or a follow-on X-15
type vehicle for much less.
And economics and engineering are interchangable; engineering in the
absense of economics is basically just physics, and in terms of physics,
the shuttle looks like a failure next to the X-15.
HS>Sorry, support that I can arrange for launchers all goes to launchers
HS>that I have some hope of riding some day. At the moment, that's
HS>DC-X's hoped-for successors.
The shuttle program has a bad record. I _once_ had hopes for the
shuttle program. By now I know those hopes were false.
All I have for DC-X and similar and dissimilar experimental vehicles
are hopes. But at least I know they aren't false hopes yet.
I did support the shuttle, way back when. It didn't do nearly what
it was supposed to. It's time to move on to something that might do
the job of orbital delivery better. Or at all.
We don't want to learn how to operate on orbit. It launches, it
shoves out the payload, it lands. It doesn't waste payload hauling
up and down EDO pallets and the like.
The only thing to be learned from shuttle is how *not* to build a
launcher.
Finally: that bit about the "proven" shuttle. Are you hoping you can
tell a lie enough times and get someone to believe it?
How much science and technology could have been done is the money spent
on shuttle had been spent differently?
...
Learn about economics and the current budget realities in the United States,
please.
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As if an aluminum stick being taken to Ulf's head is gonna solve the problem
with violence in the sport of hockey. How the hell can you say the guy is
a goon and justify it, with your back-assward mentality? Saying that hurting
a player will solve anyone's problems is asinine. New rules and a new
referee system need to be instituted. Right now, too many of the real goons
get away with too much, because the ref is watching the play (or supposed to be:I've seen Koharski and Van Hellemond, to name a few, with their heads up their asses on a few calls) rather than keeping an eye on the goofballs behind the
play. Even if the linesmen were able to call all penalties, it would be an
improvement.
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It's the video card. It's 8514/A compatible, which means it uses the
same i/o addresses as com4.
--jh
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From article <1r492jINN5fo@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu>, by nomad@ecst.csuchico.edu (Michael Larish):
I take it that when something happens that is wrong it's okay if
a bunch of people say it is? For instance, if some people go on a
murderous rampage and lynch some blacks and then a poll is taken which
shows that the majority of people think that this is acceptable then
does this mean that what these people have done isn't bad? This is an
example of mob rule not a democracy---a democracy in which people's
rights are protected. I hope that I've made myself clear on this.
Fine...you have the right to hold any opinion that you want to. But,
let me ask you this: are you outraged over this tragedy? I hope
that you are, your opinions of David Koresh and his followers not
withstanding. I know I am.
Why? I'd be interested in hearing your reasons.
Scott Kennedy, Brewer and Patriot
Before: "David Koresh is a cheap thug who interprets
the Bible through the barrel of a gun..." --ATF spokesman
After: "[The ATF] is a cheap thug who interprets
[the Constitution] through the barrel of a gun..." --Me
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Try spectrum.xerox.com [192.70.225.78] in /pub/map/dem.
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Three possible results after interview:
1) rejection outright
2) acceptance outright
3) the infamous 'wait list'...
If you are on a 'wait list', your entrance into medical school
is dependent upon some other applicant withdrawing their
acceptance. This can happen as late as day -1 of starting
classes.
You can always call the admissions office. The secretaries
should have some idea of when a decision might be made on your
application. Be calm, respectful, and friendly; secretaries
have more power than you might realize, and you never know-
could be the dean of admissions answering the phone.
If you don't get in this year, sit down and re-evaluate
yourself: your motives, desires, and goals that are directing
you into medicine; your academic and extracurricular
accomplishments. Make a decision about whether you *really*
want to be a medical doctor. I had classmates who dropped out
in the first semester of med school because they found it was
not what they wanted to do; I have friends who applied four
years in a row before they were accepted. Medicine as a
career is a choice you must make for yourself; DON'T be
pushed into it because of your parents/family/significant
other.
If you still want to be a medical doctor, determine how you
can improve your application. A letter of recommendation from
a professor who knows you well and can give an honest positive
recommendation is far better than one from a 'big-shot' famous
professor who only vaguely remembers your face. Also, don't
be afraid to ask these people if they can give you an honest
and positive recommendation; give them a chance to say 'no,
sorry' instead of the medical school saying 'no, sorry'. I
have turned down writing recommendations for some students
because I did not know them well enough to make any meaningful
comments, and some because I honestly could not recommend them
at that point.
Rewrite your personal statement; take it by an English
professor or some other friendly person with skill and
experience in writing and proof-reading and get their
criticism, both about what you are saying as well as how you
say it.
Review your academic accomplishments. If your grades are poor
in some area, don't be afraid to spend some time in further
coursework. Evidence of determined committment will help
here. If you filled your pre-medicine curriculum with gut
courses, it usually shows.
Look at your extracurricular involvements. Participating in
local philanthropic or service organizations is a plus;
substantial leadership roles in an organization help also.
Beware of 'resume padding'; such things are not difficult to
spot and weed out.
Overall, a clear conception of where you wish to head and why
you want to get there, combined with an honest self-appraisal
of skills and aptitude, will be the best path to take in
applying to any program, medical or what-have-you.
Good luck with the process -- as Tom Petty says, 'the waiting
is the hardest part', at least emotionally. :)
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STILL, the Angel Gabriel's greetings was:
"Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you.
Blessed art thou amongst women".
Even Mary was confused about this greeting.
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Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have
sincere love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from the heart.
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Basically the right question, although I was interested in cases closer
to home where the Sun is behind either a natural object or effective
shielding.
Good point (and thanks for the references).
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I agree with Gaia. Even though the Saturn has proved to be a very reliable car
so far, a little money spent now is worth the peace of mind.
In my opinion, getting the PowerTrain warranty is enough. In my case, that's be
cause; anything that needed repairing in the interior (sunroof, windows, doors,
etc.) I could do myself. I just didn't want to mess with the engine and such.
Plus I think the extra 3 years of 24-hour RoadSide Assistance must be worthe so
meting. I opted for the 5 year plan for $375.
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I have been backing up my hard drive ever since I had to re-install
everything from scratch after a crash (learned the hard way, didn't I?!).
I am using a windows-based backup program (actually Norton), and I
began wondering about the logic of this. Sure, if I accidentally delete
a file, I can get it from the archive. But what if my disk crashes again?
I would not be able to start windows to run the backup program! (Note,
by crash, I mean, there was some error message that prevented the machine
from booting properly. I think I gave up too early, but I didn't have
the time/patience/tools to figure out exactly what the problem was. My
hard drive needed cleaning up anyway. Yeah right...) This whole scenario
is complicated by the fact that I am using Stacker.
So I think there are 2 possibilities:
1) I'm right. If my disk really crashes, I would at least have to
re-install DOS and Windows to get the backup program working.
2) I'm wrong. There is an easy way to make a "mirror" of a hard disk
that can easily restore it's state from scratch.
The polls are open...
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Sorry for any confusion I may have created. The disk did come out of
a VS2000 and I would like to use it in a IBM PC clone. The reason that I
posted to comp.sys.3b1 was because I saw the drive (XT2190) mentioned
in a for-slae notice. I had asked for info before but didn't receive
any replies.
Thanks once again for the help.
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Now I have a comment concerning Israeli terrorism
during the 1930's and 1940's. The Hirgun, and other branch -
off militant groups, did fight the British do get them out of
Palestine. Yet I fail to see how this Israeli form of
terrorism was better than the terrorism practiced now by the
Arabs. These Jewish terrorist groups killed innocent British
soldiers, but not only thta also killed many Jews who were in
favor of a compromise with the Palestinians.
The Irgun killed SOLDIERS, which is a legitimate way to drive an unwanted
fogriend regime from a country. They didn't kill blindly their families or
such (not as a policy, I agree that brits which were not soldiers also were
killed sometimes) nor they killed Arabs just for being Arabs.
In case I have to remind you the difference, the majority of the attacks of
the Arab terrorist organizations was on civilians. They even tried to
justify their attacks by saying that all Jews in the Israel served in the army
at one point in time or another and therefore are legitimate targets.
In addition, they
massacred an entire Palestinian village in 1948, contributing
to the exodus of the frightened Palestinians who feared their
very lives.
Yes, these exceptions were tragic mistakes. I wasn't there and don't have
reffereces handy but from what I heard your description is a bit carried away,
most of the vilagers fled with several dozens, most of them claimed to be
fighters being killed.
Those "massaceres" are far from being the rule considering that dozens if not
hounders of Arab vilages came under Israeli rule during the same time period.
I mention this not because I'm anti semitic [I'm part
Jewish] but because this self righteousness on the part of the
Israelites pisses me off so. I'm not as critical of the
Palestinians because they were indeed screwed over by the
Jews. It 's a damn shame that the Palestinians had to pay for
German and European anti semitism.
What do you mean "screwed over by the Jews"? They began the '47 war and
didn't accept the arrgenment planned by the U.N., what did you expect the
Jews to do??
Pissed off at Immature,
Closeminded, Self righteous
Semites
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Arabs are also Semites.
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Absolutely not true. Without religion - either an established one or
one you invent for yourself - the theist and atheist are equally
(not) interested in God, because without religious revelation there
is _no_ information about God available. Strip away the dogma and
the theists/atheists are no different, simply holding a different
opinion on a matter of little practical importance.
Sorry, but that doesn't help. What test will you apply to decide
whether it is God or Satan with whom you are speaking?
How will you know that you have not simply gone insane, or having
delusions? You are like a loaded gun.
Ah, you not as stupid as I assumed. :-)
Yes. We're all in this together - each human making up a small part of
the definition of humanity.
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Jim,
I hope you never drive (or ride) when:
you have been drinking
you have been taking prescription drugs
you didn't get enough sleep the night before
you are upset with your girlfriend
you just didn't feel like your brain was talking to your body
you think you are at laguna seca and want to break the lap record
ANY of the above situations have the potential for harm (read death)
People make mistakesIf you have never endangered someone else by driving a vehicle in an
unsafe manner, then go right ahead and bitch about Mr Infante misuse
of a motor vehicle. Otherwise, think about your OWN driving responsibilities.
I am sorry about the loss of your friends, but it could just as well
been the idiot who bought a Volvo because he has problems falling asleep at the
wheel.
Eric
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Are you saying that you have some extras that you would like to do some cost
recovery on? I may be interested. I think for practical and cost reasons I
am limited to envelope detection so that leaves me with only increasing the
output power and increasing the optical gain at the receiver as methods to
extend range.
Yes I'm interested in the company name. I have access to an extensive data
book collection. With that kind of power, are we getting into an area where
eye safety is getting to be a problem.
They are a long way from me but they might be a better source than I can find
around here.
I'm keeping my application confidential for now. Raising the frequency should
be no problem, in fact one respondent to my question said that I may not have
to mimic the 50% duty cycle normally used by IR detector chips.
--
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I was just wondering what kind (brand, name, etc...) would be best on this
bike.... thanks for your advice....
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-*----
I do not have enough medical expertise to have much of an opinion
one way or another on hidden candida infections. I can
understand the skepticism of those who see this associated with
various general kinds of symptoms, while there is a lack of solid
demonstration that this happens and causes such general symptoms.
(To understand this skepticism, one only needs to know of past
failures that shared these characteristics with the notion of
hidden candida infection. There have been quite a few, and the
proponents of all thought that the skeptics were overly skeptical.)
On the other hand, I am happy to read that some people are
sufficiently interested in this possibility, spurred by
suggestive clinical experience, to research it further. The
doubters may be surprised. (It has happened before.)
I realize that admitting ignorance in the face of ignorance may
not endear me to those who are so sure they know one way or
another. (And, indeed, perhaps some of them do know -- I am the
one who is currently ignorant.) But I find this the most honest
route, and so I am happy with it.
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I waved to a guy on a riding mower this morning. Does that count?
BTW, I live in the country... EVERYONE waves out here!
----===== DoD #8177 = Technician(Dr. Speed) .NOT. Student =====----
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Mike Adams suggested discussions on long-term effects of spaceflight
to the human being. I love this topic, as some of you regulars know.
So, having seen Henry's encouraging statement about starting to talk
about it; I shall.
I feel that we as a community of people have unique resources
to deliver to the world a comprehensive book which can elaborate
on the utility of spaceflight to fields which are as divergent
as medical intensive care, agriculture, environmental protection, and
probably more. I do not believe that the general public understands
the impact of spaceflight on the whole of society. In the absence
of such knowledge, we see dwindling support of the world's space effort.
I believe that we as a group have the responsibility to not only
communicate amongst ourselves, but also with others through print media.
A well-orchestrated and technically oriented analysis of life science
variables required to support long-duration spaceflight (like long
expenditions to the moon or Mars) would be entertaining and educational
to the general public. The objective of such an effort would be to
compile resources and publications from accepted scientific and technical
journals which would address each major life science area. In addition,
ideas for further research and development could be put forward for
the general public to ponder...allowing the general public to take
part in the excitement of exploration.
Individuals interested should be willing to devote an hour per week
to running literature searches and finding journal articles. In addition,
we need to obtain the assistance of personnel from within the halls
of NASA and industry.
I have appreciated the positive responses to date and I am personally
eager to start this project. Perhaps we could start with debate regarding
how best to grade the viability of various technologies for application
to spaceflight.
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This is a good question. There are major blind spots in our understanding
of what makes the earth habitable. For example, why does the earth's
atmosphere have the concentration of oxygen it does? The naive
answer is "photosynthesis", but this is clearly incomplete. Photosynthesis
by itself can't make the atmosphere oxygenated, as the oxygen produced
is consumed when the plants decay or are eaten. What is needed
is photosynthesis plus some mechanism to sequester some fraction of
the resulting reduced material.
On earth, this mechanism is burial in seafloor sediments of organic
matter, mostly from oceanic sources. However, this burial requires
continental sediments (in the deep ocean, the burial rate is so slow
that most material is consumed before it can be sequestered).
This suggests that a planet without large oceans, or a planet without
continents undergoing weathering, will have a hard time accumulating
an oxygen atmosphere. In particular, an all-ocean planet may have a
hard time supporting an oxygen atmosphere.
There is also the problem of why the oxygen in the earth's atmosphere
has been relatively stable over geological time, for a period at least
2 orders of magnitude longer than the decay time of atmospheric O2 to
weathering in the absence of replenishment. No convincing feedback
mechanism has been identified. Perhaps the reason is the weak
anthropic principle: if during the last 500 MYr or so, the oxygen
level had dropped too low, we wouldn't be here to be wondering about
it.
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I've been able to configure xterm so that I can type in accented characters.
I'm using X11R5, with iso8859 fonts, my shell is tcsh with the following
definitions :
setenv LC_CTYPE iso_8859_1
stty pass8
Then, I add the following in my .Xdefaults file:
XTerm*eightBitInput: True
XTerm*eightBitOutput: True
XTerm*VT100.Translations: #override \
Meta<Key>': keymap(aigu) \n\
Meta<Key>`: keymap(grave) \n\
Meta<Key>^: keymap(circ) \n\
Meta<Key>\\,: keymap(ced)
XTerm*VT100.aiguKeymap.translations: \
~Shift <Key>e: string(0xe9) keymap(None)\n\
<Key>E: string(0xc9) keymap(None) \n\
~Shift <Key>c: string(0xe7) \n\
<Key> C: string(0xc7)
XTerm*VT100.graveKeymap.translations: \
~Shift <Key>e: string(0xe8) keymap(None)\n\
<Key>E: string(0xc8) keymap(None)\n\
~Shift <Key>u: string(0xf9) keymap(None)\n\
<Key>U: string(0xd9) keymap(None)\n\
~Shift <Key>a: string(0xe0) keymap(None)\n\
<Key>A: string(0xc0) keymap(None)
XTerm*VT100.circKeymap.translations: \
~Shift <Key>e: string(0xea) keymap(None)\n\
<Key>E: string(0xca) keymap(None)\n\
~Shift <Key>u: string(0xfb) keymap(None)\n\
<Key>U: string(0xdb) keymap(None)\n\
~Shift <Key>i: string(0xee) keymap(None)\n\
<Key>I: string(0xce) keymap(None)\n\
~Shift <Key>o: string(0xf4) keymap(None)\n\
<Key>O: string(0xd4) keymap(None)
XTerm*VT100.cedKeymap.translations: \
~Shift <Key>c: string(0xe7) keymap(None)\n\
<Key> C: string(0xc7) keymap(None)
This makes the Meta-{',`,^} keys behave as dead keys.
Of course, this only works for xterm. For emacs, my solution is to install the
Lucid version of GnuEmacs 19, and to load the x-compose library.
Hope this helps,
Eric
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Hi,
I use a PC with a screen access program (IBM Screen Reader) and a
speech synthesizer. (Accent SA).
I would like to find out about screen access programs for the windows
platform. I heard that were a couple of them out now under beta
testing, I would like to find out addresses/prices etc.
Thanks,
--Raman
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What the hell are U talking about? ESPN showed Pens/Devils game as advertised.
BUt the morons at ESPN should know that Pens will kick Devils ass and the
game will be boring. I'd rather see Boston/Buffalo game which seems to be
an exciting series since noone had expected Buffalo to get past the first
round.
Well let's hope they change their mind on THU's game and show some other
game. The Pens series is really getting boring. I want to see some
exciting game no matter who wins. If NHL wants a major network contract
then they better put some brains in ESPN people.
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Ken
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Xoftware from Age Software has proven good by me. Runs under MS Windows and is relatively stable.
techsup@age.com
could probably help you out more.
--Andy
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True. William "Dummy" Hoy was baseball's first deaf player. He
played in the bigs from 1888 through 1903 for several teams, including
the White Sox and Reds.
--
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Brian Curran Mead Data Central brian@meaddata.com
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specify RamdomPlacement (or RandomPlace ? )
in your .tvtwmrc. This places the windows not-interactively
in pseudo - random positions on your screens.
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This is true, but it's not quite the whole story. There were
actually some people who were more careful in their methodology
who also replicated the 'phantom leaf effect.'
One of the most influential critics of Kirlian Electrophotography
is a Theosophist (and threfore presumably willing to entertain the
hypothesis of scientific evidence for a human aura, electromagnetic
or otherwise), professor of electrical engineering at London's
City University, and a past president of the Society for Psychic Research
named A. J. Ellison.
After years of studying the method and the claims, Ellison
came to the conclusion that the photographic images are what we
calls 'Lichtenberg Figures,' an effect of intermittent ionization of
the air around the object. It's a bit more complicated than
'not wiping off the plates,' but it comes down to the same thing
in the end, Kirlian electrophotography has much more limited
value (if any) than was previously widely thought. Electrical and
magnetic fields generated by the body are much too small to be
of much use diagnostically without very elaborate equipment and
usually also tracer chemicals.
kind regards,
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Caps/Isles Fans,
Anyone interested in catching the games from Nassau
Coliseum (hopefully there will be another) can catch
the game at North Carolina's Original Sports Bar in
Chapel Hill. I'm pretty sure they carry HTS as well.
They had all three games on at the same
time last night. This is the only place I know to
catch all of the Stanley Cup action.
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Mark Ira Kaufman writes
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Because some people like them (and some people actually need them).
Yeah, right. Real muscle cars had a manual transmission, and their
clutches aren't that heavy. Shelby-American used plenty of
high-powered, high-torque engines, and Carroll only put autos in
his cars because people wanted them. (Blasphemers! Heretics!
Burn them, burn them for defiling a Shelby with an auto! ;-)
Real Cobras (and they were the ultimate sports car at the
time) had big-block Fords which turned out prodigious amounts
of power and torque, and _none_ of them had automatics.
Yeah, if you call a gear shift in the middle of a curve "fun." :-)
I personally would _love_ to have a '66 Galaxie 500 7-Liter Coupe,
with a fire-breathing 427 and four-onna-floor (to go along side
my '66 Galaxie 500 pillarless hardtop with a fire-breathing 390
with three-onna-tree; I love the sound of dual exhaust in the
morning! :-). There's no comparison between a REAL American
Muscle Car and a car with a big engine and an automatic, IMHO.
James
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
What kind of ranking system is used?
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Even I noticed that Gant's demeanor was not one of a batter
attempting to regain his concentration. Gant was stalking off.
I wonder if Gant said something to the ump?
Actually, there was a small hand wave by Gant...as if to say
'Don't bother me'. Gant may have said something here, too.
Cox was already halfway to the ump when the strike was called.
My impression was that Gant was not 'stepping out.' He was making
a protest about the lack of an appeal to first. As has been
pointed out earlier, there is no appeal to first on a strike.
I can understand Gant feeling a little pressure in a two-out,
RISP, 1 - 0 game, ninth inning. He let it get to him. The ump
also overreacted. Gant was stalking off, but I doubt he would
have been gone long. Hirschbeck should have let him have a
moment to compose himself before telling him to come bat.
IMHO, umpires should be more flexible than what Hirschbeck
showed. Gant was disturbed to the point it was pretty likely
he would not get a hit.
A very bad finish to a pretty good game.
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*** On 04-19-93 03:56, Juan Carlos Leon had the unmitigated gall to say this:
JCL> I just got a problem, I have a cheapo 2400bps modem which I use to
JCL> connect to my university, but I get too much garbage on the screen. I
JCL> do know it's because the noise in the line (I can actually hear it).
JCL> So my question is will an error correction protocol help to eliminate
JCL> this garbage?, my modem doesn't have any of these on hardware, can a
JCL> software implemented protocol do the trick?
There is a software version of MNP-5 available from MTEZ, and it will often
connect with other modems that are MNP compatible, but if the modem that you
are connecting to doesn't support MNP then it won't help. Error correcting
modems will eliminate line noise, but only id there are error correcting
modems on both ends of the conncetion. The added soeed is much worth the
price of error correcting modems. 9600 baud V.42bis modems are very
reasonable, and they are only about 15% slower than the more expensive
14,400 modems on the market.
... My hard disk is full! Maybe I'll try this message section thing.
--- Blue Wave/QWK v2.10
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Hi-
Does anyone out there know how I would get started on writing a
device driver for the Apple CD300 CD-ROM drive, which *can*
read audio CD formats out through the SCSI bus?
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hello,
for 2 months I've unsuccessfully attempted to get either
a 3rd or 4th serial port working on my system.
various systems diagnostics (e.g., MSD, Norton) tell me
it's there, but anything I hook up to it can't use it
I have two serial ports on the motherboard
if I set my internal FAX/modem for com4 the utility
programs report a COM3
I've checked to make sure all the IRQs and addresses are
correctly (as listed in most manuals) set
am I missing something very basic?
where should I go from here?
any help, even a point in the right direction, would be
most appreciated.
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I have a feeling that you are not "the enemy". There are without a doubt
dickhead cops. But there are at least as many dickhead bikers, even here
(you know who you are :-). I will certainly give you the same benefit of
the doubt as any other biker here. Welcome.
I think I can speak for the entire DoD in this.
(Hey guys, free ride in Georgia!!!)
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Make sure you use the small fonts driver & not the large fonts driver. Check
that in your setup. That's the only explanation I would find.
Hope this helps
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Pierre Turgeon of the Islanders
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From article <C5sEGz.Mwr@dscomsa.desy.de>, by hallam@dscomsa.desy.de (Phill Hallam-Baker):
[stuff about British cult members deleted]
They were using 50 caliber ammunition not 50mm ammo. 50mm would be 5cm; a
shell of this size would be larger than a lot of cannon shells.
Snipers could have screened the people trying to put out the fire. Besides,
the ranch house (not "fort apocalypse"; it was just a house despite what
the FBI and ATF says) was on *fire*. The "Gun loonies" couldn't hardly
have been shooting at fire men while there house was engulfed in flames.
The FBI and ATF don't have any excuse for not having fire engines there
to put out the blaze. The bastards waited until the fire was *well*
under way before they called the fire department in Waco. They didn't
even tell the fire department to be on standby. I sincerely hope that
the FBI, ATF, Attorney General Janet Reno, and all others involved in
this fiasco get the just punishment that they so richly deserve.
Someone should pay for this needless, tragic waste of human life.
Sadly, these evil SOBs will probably never face justice. The media
and the government will just whitewash this incident and chalk it
up as being solely David Koresh's fault. Sadder still, the American
people will probably believe them.
This is not the problem...the problem is that we have a government that
is becoming more tyrannical every day. If people decide to own guns
*and* live in one place together then that is their prerogative. On
the other hand, if the BDs were in posession of explosives and illegal
guns then the government did have the right to search their compound.
But, the allegations that the BDs were in posession of illegal weapons
hasn't been proven yet, so I'm not going to conclude that the BDs broke
any laws. David Koresh was accused of abusing children, but if this
is his *only* crime then the presence of the ATF can't be justified.
The ATF is only supposed to deal with firearms, tobacco, and alcohol
violations. ATF agents are basically cigarette cops...they should
stay out of other kinds of law-enforcement actions that are out of
their jurisdiction. Better yet, they should be s**tcanned IMO.
Sounds like something the SS would do. Human life---children and adults
alike---should be treated with respect---even if they are "heavily-armed
religious wackos".
David Koresh's lawyer seemed to think that everyone *would* come out
peacefully sooner or later. The FBI and ATF had NOTHING BUT TIME ON
THEIR HANDS! Why did they have to escalate the situation and cause
this senseless tragedy? Their job is to protect the public and SAVE
LIVES NOT KILL PEOPLE for crying out loud.
Don't be so sure about that. I read in a newspaper today that one of the
cult members said that when one of the tanks went through the wall that
it knocked over a lantern which caused the ranch house to be caught on
fire. This cult member also said that David Koresh had *no* intentions
of committing mass suicide. David Koresh's lawyer also confirms this.
Therefore, if this is true then this means that the FBI AND ATF MURDERED
EVERYONE IN THAT HOUSE! Even if this is not true, the FBI and ATF still
don't get off the hook because they waited a damn long time to call the
Waco fire department. Perhaps they wanted all these people to die.
You're wrong on several accounts. ATF agents were adequately armed. They
had MP5s, AR-15s, and shotguns. Some agents were armed with automatic
pistols but not all were. The ATF's initial claim---which they later
retracted---that agents were underarmed is simply ludicrous.
Gun control isn't the only issue here. If the sick little monkeys in
Washington try to use the Waco incident as a reason to ban guns then
they will have demonstrated just how f***ed up they are. What concerns
me much more than new gun control legislation is that the government
seems to be able to get away with s**t like they did in Waco...they are
becoming more and more callous about people's rights and the law. This
greatly disturbs me and it should disturb you as well.
Scott Kennedy, Brewer and Patriot
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: > Surely you are not equating David Koresh with Christianity? The two are
: > not comparable.
:
: This is always an option: when the sect is causing harm, re-label
: the cult to something else.
:
: Cheers,
: Kent
Good point.
I would not doubt that DK could have spouted verse and debated with best.
According to reports his extensive Bible knowledge was one way he sucked
in the fools (followers?).
Quote bible all you want. I too judge what you say be what you do and
even more by if it makes sense.
Sense, common that is. Doesn't seem so common after all!
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I guess that it was not acceptable because Germany *also* chose
a path of aggression simultaneously that put the interests of
other countries in peril. I wonder whether US or other countries
would have risked themselves if only Jews were persecuted and
Hitler had no imperialist ambitions. (I am no student of history
and I am just asking questions.)
I don't think they would have. After all the U.S. was one of the
countries that turned away Jewish refugees when there was still time
to get them out. (Considered and rejected at the Cabinet level then..)
...
Under what conditions should US interfere in foregin countries,
is an abstraction one must clarify before resorting to acrimonious
accusations of religious bigotry and such.
As I understand it, International law provides the right of any
country to intervene to prevent genocide. I think once the World
Court has ruled that genocide is being committed...
If a Human Rights Czar is appointed at the U.N., we could have
international monitors recording events and responses of local
officials and develop an objective basis. This could be backed by
adjudication at the International Court of Justice and enforcement
through a Rapid Deployment Force under the U.N. Secretary General's
command. I would like to see the U.N. directly impose ICJ rulings
whenever feasible (without the possibility of vetos at the UN Security
Council.. much as the President can't veto a U.S. Supreme Court
ruling).
The U.S. is now supporting the effort to appoint the HR Czar -- the
third world opposition is led by three countries, China, Iran and
Pakistan (What company is Pakistan keeping!).
The U.S. is also reconsidering its opposition to the U.N. force
initially envisaged in the Charter (although under the control of the
Security Council). The UN SC is quite a flawed body. Rogue
governments like the PRC have even threatened their veto in the last
few months to block the move to place U.N. troops in Bosnia under
Chapter 7 instead of 11 (if I have the numbers straight) where they
could have moved from being a monitoring to an enforcement force
without requiring further SC action. (The PRC even continues to
threaten using its veto on U.N. action despite the ICJ ruling. The
current set-up requires the SC to enforce ICJ rulings..).
Peace,
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=Which was why I started checking EVERY time I got sick. And EVERY
=time I got sick MSG was somehow involved in one of the food products.
Which points up the "studies" made by amateurs: Did you ALSO check EVERY TIME
YOU DID *NOT* get sick? "No," you say? Why not check every thing you eat when
you don't get sick and find out how much MSG you're actually consuming?
=> All that's needed now is that final step, a double-blind study done
=> on humans. There isn't even an ethical question about "possible
=> harm", as this is a widely used and approved food additive.
=
=But - some say that only 2% of the population has a problem with MSG -
=some say it's more like 20% - but let's say that it's 5%. How many
=people would have to be tested that would have a problem? Also - I
=KNOW I have a problem with it, and I wouldn't VOLUNTEER for a test.
If you knew enough about what the test was about to decide that you didn't want
to participate because it involved MSG, you'd've already made yourself
ineligible (since MSG IS detectable by taste). How can anybody be so clueless
as to what double blind studies are all about?
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Carl J Lydick | INTERnet: CARL@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU | NSI/HEPnet: SOL1::CARL
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If someone has downloaded the PCTools demo from Compuserve,
please upload it to CICA or other FTP site.
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: Hi!
:
: Is it possible through either pin configuration or through software
: programming to change the IP numbers on an ethernet card?
:
: Thanks in Advance!
:
: --
: =-Dave *Tigger!*
:
: djohnson@moose.uvm.edu 'Tiggers are wonderful things!'
: Dave C Johnson
I think you mean the ethernet numbers. The 8 byte ethernet id is the unique
Electronic Serial Number (ESN) assigned to each ethernet board in existence.
This is a "physical layer" concept. The IP address is a higher layer protocol.
The analogy to telephone service is the IP address is your phone number, while
the particular wire pair in the cable on the pole has some (unknown to you or
I) physical identification scheme (number).
But to answer your question (assuming you indeed meant the Ethernet number)
it is not supposed to be possible to change the number. Of course the
manufacturer can always retro-fit a board, but there could hardly be a
reason to ever do that.
If your question is actually referring to the IP address, it is most definetly
changable. But it is strictly software.
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Just saw an article in New Scientist; AT&T videophones won't talk to (?)BTI
videophones. The AT&T ones use a 19.2kb modem, BTI uses 14.4kb. AT&T models
have to communicate using all AT&T exchanges, whereas the BTI can route
via most current exchanges. Suggestions include building standards converters
into telephone exchanges - the mind boggles :)= . The BTI design is a bit
more conservative and is better able to cope with current data compression
hardware on long-distance lines.
(not having the magazine to hand, I may have mis-remembered BTI. I think it
is a British one made by GEC-Marconi, and currently selling to other
countries).
Yet Another Standards Screw-up.
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Nice sig. Like the change.
BTW: Could you post the names of the people who are going to be on the
letter? I (and I'm sure others) would like to know if we are included. If I'm
not I want to be! Roger is a fool!
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One more reason for men to learn the Lamaze breathing techniques, in order
to be able to get some pain reduction instantly, wherever you are.
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Or somebody get them by a local call and contact a ftp site for
uploading. If this is not possible, I can keep them on my disk and
email the at request uuencoded. Provided, that somebody sends them to
me, of cource. (I live in NY:-)
--
Penio Penev x7423 (212)327-7423 (w) Internet: penev@venezia.rockefeller.edu
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Cool. And thank you for an intelligent response devoid of the silly
name-calling of others. :)
One of the basic things you need to
OK.
Actually, I think the large-scale sample size is part of the problem.
It seems to me that if we were to plot all the players in baseball
in regard to BA vs. Clutch BA deviation we would get some kind of
bell curve. (The X-axis being the +/- deviation in clutch hitting
vs. non-clutch; the Y-axis being the number of players.) Certainly
there would be *some* players on the extreme ends of the bell. My
*supposition* is that if we were to find the SAME players consistently
(year after year) at one end of the bell or the other, then we might
be able to make some reasonable conclusions about *those* players
(as opposed to all baseball players).
As a counterexample to
You won't hear those kind of accusations from me. It is interesting
that you selected Maldonado, because he is someone whom I have also
looked at. He has been a very inconsistent hitter (in terms of BA),
hitting in 1989 - 92 .217, .273, .250, .272 Admittedly, he has
been traded between leagues as well as clubs. His clutch hitting
record is equally inconsistent. So, for my purposes in 1993 I would
not draw any conclusions about his ability to hit in the clutch based
on his prior performance. I don't know how I would have felt in 1988,
but you may indeed be right.
When I looked at Sabo I found a more consistent record of hitting, and
a more consistent pattern of his clutch hitting being proportionately
below his non-clutch BA. Ditto for Joe Carter.
This probably brings us to the heart of the disagreement I am having
with others on this topic. Must any conclusion based on statistical
history be able to be applied broadly throughout a data base before
it has any validity? Is it impossible (or irrational) to apply
statistical analysis to selected components of the data base?
I completely accept that reasoning. Again, what if we were to find
the same individuals at each end of the spectrum on a consistent
basis?
amen.
-- The Beastmaster
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I see that I misphrased my question. I should have asked WHICH
full-autos Kratz can accurately distinguish from semi-auto
look-alikes. I should have also included some semi-auto only guns in
my list to see if he'd ask how to distinguish them from their
non-existent full-auto "relatives".
Let's do the former now. Kratz has claimed that he can visually
distinguish full-autos from semi-autos. For which full-autos is he
making that claim? How does he do it? Let's get specific, and as
exhaustive as possible.
Maybe? Why is Kratz asking about what he told us that he knows?
Is Kratz certain that he can distinguish a three position switch from
a two position switch via TV inspection? (Does he even get to see the
switch in the typical police display of guns?) Note that one might
well be able to see this sort of thing in a hands on visual inspection
even though it won't be seen on TV. And to think that Kratz was
telling us that seeing it on TV was just as accurate as being
there....
Why all the questions? Kratz assured us that he could make this distinction
and now he's asking us how he did it....
What about it? It only demonstrates that, as I predicted, Kratz
was blowing smoke on this.
-andy wonders what Kratz is learning from this
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In what seems to be a classic Mitchell move, he drops a fly ball, and injures
his hamstring on the same play. Haven't heard anything on how serious the
leg is.
--->Paul, who me? bitter about Mitchell's performance in Seattle? Nah.
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We will stretch no farm animal beyond its natural length
paula@koufax.cv.hp.com Paul Andresen Hewlett-Packard (503)-750-3511
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The *security* of the system does depend only on the secrecy of the keys.
The ability to tap is an inherent *insecurity* which depends fundamentally on
the secrecy of the algorithm. To spell it out, because so many people seem to
miss the point, if the algorithm were published, anyone could create a chip
which would work correctly with the Skipjack chips but which would not have
its key registered.
I believe there is no technical means of ensuring key escrow without the
government maintaining a secret of some kind. For example, the secret could be
the private keys of the escrow agencies; their digital signatures would be
required before a key could be used. In this case, the NSA/NIST/whoever has
decided that protecting the entire algorithm is easier/cheaper/more secure than
other possible protocols.
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The obsession with discussions of past (or present) events seems to be
largely centered on trying to "prove" that "they" are worse than "us".
As we see over and over, that leads nowhere except to make ourselves
feel superior. It's as if we've become addicted to periodic injections
of "self-affirmation" that draw their power from denigration of the
"other" and romanticization of ourselves. The hope is that we will begin
sometime to apply these discussions in some way towards consideration of
how to defuse the situation, advancement of negotiations and the search
for common ground between the parties involved.
Of course, for this to happen we can't believe that the best path to
*making ourselves feel better* is at the expense of others. As long as
those valuing the coming together of "opposing" parties do not pursue
their vision with the same passion as do those polarization specialists,
we will stay stuck in the circus of one-upsmanship we now have. We're
getting precisely what we are willing to work for.
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Can someone tell me where to find 120volt 3 watt 40 mA fans that
fit the standard computer mounting size )ie. 3 and 1/8 inch wide
and 4 inches diagonal from hole to hole (hole=where bolt or screw
goes through. I have found higher (NOISY) fans that are 120 v
6 watt, but I need a quite fan. I can use 12 volt as well, but
found just about all 12 volt fans to be noisy. I also find that
the 120 v fans are not only quieter, but the blade shape has a lot
to do with it. I have a dead fan that was quiet in it's day. It
has long blades (like fan blades in a tturbo engine on a jet is
the only way I can describe it. The dead fan is ETRI Model 126LH.
Actually it's not dead, it just makes a hideous rattle noise so
it's stealthy qualities are void. Thanks.
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[...]
If they're planning on patenting an algorithm, then I hope they go out of
business as quickly as possible. And you can tell them I said that.
I'm sure many other readers of these newsgroups will agree, too.
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Jerry Salem writes
The only way to do that would be to add a video card to the LC expansion
port. This doesn't have to be that expensive; several companies have portrait
monitor/video card bundles available.
Check a current MacWorld/MacUser.
--Nizam
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I have the following Playboy videos for sale. Email me if interested. All are
original tapes (of course) in original boxes.
Video Playmate Calendar 1991
Wet & Wild II
Sexy Lingerie II
Sexy Lingerie III
Prices are $15 each, 2 for $25, 3 for $35, or all 4 for $45.
I also have a bunch of magazines (Playboy, Penthouse, Hustler, Chic, Club, and
more) Email me if interested in those too. I'm willing to sell all or part of
my collection cheaply.
-Justin (jslauson@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu)
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"If builders built buildings like I write programs, then the first woodpecker
that came along would destroy civilization."
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So of the 120 hp produced by my FJ1100 engine,
12 hp * (745.7 watts)/1 hp = 8.948 kilowatts
is being dumped into 220 leetle tiny o-rings? That's 40.67 watts per
o-ring! Seems a little *hot*, doncha think?
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<><><><> L O O K I N G F O R D A N A W E I C K <><><><>
HE IS A CROOK. DON'T DEAL WITH HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Please Help:
I am looking for Dana Weick. A month ago I made a deal with him over the
net. I was to sell him some memory, in exchang for $100 and a 486-66 cpu.
I thought the deal was great, so I went on with it.
I sent him the memory COD FOR $100. He was then suppose to send me the cpu.
I receive his COD payment on 4/8/93. He send me a message the he sent the
cpu out 4/16/93. It has been two weeks, and I didn't receive the CPU.
I send him numerous message asking for confirmation that the cpu was ship, or
what address he send it to (to make sure it didn't get lost in the mail.)
He never reply my mail.
I finally resorted to calling him in Arizona. The first call didn't get
throught, I got an answering machine. I left him my number. He didn't reply.
I call again the next day and he pick up the phone. I asked him if he had
send out the cpu. He said yes, but he doesn't know what address he sent it
to.
He said that you would check his record at home and call me back the next day.
To my suprise, He never called. I then send him some more email messages, he
never reply again. (strang, when the deal was being made, he reply to every
of my message, now that He got my memory, He won't even reply to me.)
Now: I am still calling him, but he won't pick up the phone. I am also still
emailing him, but he won't reply my mail.
So if any one know this DANA WEICK, please contact him.
he can be reach at:
Dana Weick
4238 W Las Palmaritas
Phoenix, AZ 85051
(602)925-6123 in the day time this is his business number.
(602)842-2145 in the evenings this is his home number.
his email address is:
weick@master.lds-az.loral.com
*******This is our deal
From weick@master.lds-az.loral.com Wed Mar 17 20:09:20 1993
[my address]
Great, you can send the SIMMS to me at:
Dana Weick
4238 W Las Palmaritas
Phoenix, AZ 85051
(602) 925-6123 (days) (602) 842-2145 (evenings)
I would prefer US Mail, 2nd Day Priority (it only costs $2.90)
The CPU is brand new, install it correctly (meaning don't plug it in
backwards or bend any pins) and I'll warranty it for 6 months.
Thanks
****ON 4/8 I SEND HIM AND SAID...
that I got the cod payment.
and asked if the cpu is sent out yet
****HE REPLIED.....ON 4/9
Glad the COD payment got to you OK, the CPU has been sent so keep your eyes out
for it. Be *very* careful when you install it, be careful of static discharge,
bending pins during insertion and above all make absolutely certain you
plug the chip in the proper orientation. The chip was checked out prior to
shipping and if you cook it by plugging it in backwards I won't be real
sympathetic!
If you don't know how to tell what orientation the chip should be installed,
DON'T GUESS!
********************************DANA WEICK UPDATE:****************************
I call him sunday, his wife Debbie picked up the phone. She said that he was
busy with his kids, and he would call me back in 10 minuets. Half an house
went by, Weick didn't called. I called him again, and his phone was discon-
nected.
Since this post, I have numberous people who mail me saying that this DANA
WEICK have ripped them off. We got do something about this guy. He has
appearrently been doing this for a few years now. And he is getting away
with it.
--
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That doesn't count as getting rid of the press. Getting rid of the press
would mean getting them far enough away so that they wouldn't be able to
see what is going on.
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From what I understand of my experience in looking up this word, and
discussing it with a Greek-literate individual, the meaning of the
word is rather clear. Basically it literally means "he who beds with a man"
or "he who has sex with a man." The burden of proof is on the
pro-homosexuality side of the argument to show that the word has an
idiomatic meaning nor evident from its literal meaning. One can speculate
all day long that it might mean something else, but we need evidence
before we create new doctrines, and get rid of the historical understanding
of the meaning of this word.
Link Hudson.
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I.D. Benham, on the Wed, 21 Apr 1993 17:11:39 GMT wibbled:
: Hi,
: I'm now in the market for buying a BMW.The ideal would be an R80 RS but I'd be
: interested to here of any R80 for sale .Age is not a problem - I'm more
: interested in a good example without a massive amount of miles and one which has
: been well maintained as I intend to keep it well and for some time.
: I would also like to know if anyone has any sound advice as regards to
: INSURANCE - 27yr old,licence for 9 years,no accidents/claims/convictions.Am I old
: enough to get BMW owners club insurance yet or will I have to wait until next
: year?
: Ian
: Future Beemer Owner
My best advice would be to contact a local dealer (see the yellow
pages under "Motorcycle Dealers") and ask for the address of the local
section BMW Owners Club. The local BMW dealer will give you details
of the BMW Insurance terms and the club will help you with all
details. Getting a bike from the dealer is the best bet, if you can
afford it. The warranty is fairly handy as BM bits are made from
solid gold, apart from the parts made from ruby and platinum. Apparently.
--
Nick (the perpetually broke BMW Biker) DoD 1069 Concise Oxford No Loot
M'Lud.
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What CPU does this use? I need the info fro my Thesis.
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First $50.00 grabs it! It's a Sears Kenmore 700 Watt unit FYI.
Art
This unit has been sold. Thank you for your replies!
There is another oven available for those still interested. My mother
decided to sell her spare. Same price, $50.00 to the first taker.
Her's is strictly microwave, no convection, and is in equally good
condition. Same size as our's, approximately 4-5 cubic feet.
Let me know!
Art
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Note: The device has never been used (IE: still in plastic) and is 10baseT
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And is there a reason or value for such a brainless shit for brains asshole
to be haer. You are a self hating bastard. Neither your name nor your
ideas, which I've come across before and thought were too stupid and
uncivlized to respond to, prove your first-worldist claim and civility.
Give me sources to read it or shut up. You think I will take such an
ignorant as yourself on his words??
There is nothing primitive about Islam except in your mind. I do read and
live daily with disagreable facts, and I only ask them to prove themselves.
The last time I checked, this was truly a 1st-worldist civilized approach to
facts and figures. I did not whine about the jews, I merely stated a fact
thet is strange to nobody. As far as me being jerk, FUCK YOU. (Sorry to
other people that read this).
I am at home fuck face. my name does not mean I am from somewhere else,
except in your litte manute stupid brain. And while we are at names,
yours does not particularly seem to be 1st-worldist. Ajami?? What's that
? Arabic?? As I said you must be ashamed of what you are. You must
really hate yourself don't you ass-hole??
Mohammed
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Why? There is no need to go into this.......
especially this rivetting piece of information.
As I remember, someone did ask if UV had a speach code. But, really,
there is no need for this brief survey course.
How wonderful for you.
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Then delete the "unfortunately". Now tell me that the two statement
say effectively the same thing.
And to save everyone a couple of trips round this loop, please notice
that we are only obliged to use force to preserve self. We can choose
*not* to preserve self, which is the point of pacifism.
And in this case they don't prescribe the same things, so.....
If you don't think the use of force is immoral, why minimise its use?
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After reading the posts on this newsgroup for the pasts 4 months, it
has become apparent to me that this group is primarily active with
Liberals, Catholics, New Agers', and Athiests. Someone might think
to change the name to: soc.religion.any - or - perhaps even
soc.religion.new. It might seem to be more appropriate.
Heck, don't flame me, I'm Catholic, gay, and I voted
for Bill Clinton. I'm on your side!
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We want to give lawyers something to do in the 21st cen., don't we?
Oh I bet you do. They are probably just better at it than our crooks. :-)
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I have been posting monthly "how-to-setup a SLIP client on a PC" posts for a
few months. Lots of work, and imminent graduation have come in the way of
posting one of these for March or earlier this month -- for which I apologize.
This file includes information on writing a script for University of Minnesota
PHONE, and also a batch file hack that lets you use other packet drivers with
PHONE.
For additions, modifications and corrections, I can be reached at
<ashok@biochemistry.cwru.edu>
Best wishes,
Ashok
-- begin SLIP.TXT --
Based on my experiences on setting up SLIP under DOS and Windows, here
are my comments on setting up SLIP in this environment. I thank the
Trumpet beta testers and the CWRU SLIP beta testers for their comments.
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Configuring your Modem:
a) Turn off DTR (AT&D0&W)
I have to disable DTR because the communication program that I use
to dial my SLIP server (QMODEM) drops DTR when I exit the program
and therefore hangs up the line. If you use a program like Kermit
or Conex to establish the SLIP connection, then this need not be done.
These programs do not necessarily hangup the line when you exit.
NOTE: If you use Univ. of Minn. PHONE to dial and establish a
SLIP connection, you do not need to turn off DTR.
b) Dial and establish the SLIP connection first. This can be done
automatically if you use a program like PHONE (from the University of
Minnesota) which will dial and establish a SLIP connection then load the
SLIP packet driver. The PHONE scripting language is simple and
phone scripts can be easily written to configure PHONE to work with
other SLIP server. In addition, while the only packet driver
that PHONE works with is UMSLIP (currently), it is easy to write a
batch file hack that lets PHONE work with other packet drivers.
There is a section on PHONE in the document with both script and
batch file examples.
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Configuring the SLIP drivers:
There are five SLIP packet drivers commonly available
CSLIPPER.EXE Peter Tattam's compressed SLIP driver
SLIPPER.EXE Peter Tattam's SLIP driver
SLIP8250.COM Crynwr driver (I like Phil Burn's modified driver)
ETHERSL.COM Crynwr driver (ethernet simulation over SLIP)
UMSLIP.COM Univ. of Minnesota driver (based on SLIP8250)
Of these four, I vastly prefer C/SLIPPER.EXE over SLIP8250.COM or
ETHERSL.COM for the following reasons:
a) It is much faster even though my modem has just a 16450 UART
b) While using EtherSLIP/SLIP8250/UMSLIP, myself and several others
have noticed that the PC clock gets messed up after performing a
long FTP transfer.
c) It supports PKTMUX when used in ethernet simulation mode
d) When used in Ethernet simulation mode C/SLIPPER seem to work with
every TCP/IP application that I have tested it with.
Instructions for C/SLIPPER.EXE (and you do not use PHONE)
a) Load SLIPPER in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file according to instructions:
For instance if you have a v.32bis modem on COM1
slipper com1 vec=62 baud=57600
b) If you use DOS TCP/IP applications in Win 3.1 DOS boxes, then use the
double-ended packet driver shim WinPKT.COM -- this creates a virtual
packet driver at 0x60. DOS applications in native mode, DOS
applications in Windows 3.1 DOS boxes and Windows applications can all
use this virtual driver at 0x60.
winpkt.com 0x60 0x62
c) If you use QVT/Net, load PKTINT.COM next. QVT/net is configured in
QVTNET.INI to use the interrupt at 0x60.
pktint.com
Instructions for SLIP8250.COM:
a) Try getting a version 10 SLIP driver. Philip Burns of Northwestern
University has a modified SLIP8250.COM driver that is better at hardware
handshaking. This driver is distributed along with NuPOP.
b) Load the driver AFTER establishing the SLIP connection. My modem is a
V.32bis modem on COM1, so here is how I would load the driver.
slip8250 -w 0x62 -h 4 SLIP 0x03f8 57600
c) As discussed above if you use DOS TCP/IP applications in Windows 3.x
DOS boxes, you probably want to use WINPKT.COM
winpkt.com 0x60 0x62
d) If you use WinQVT/net, load PKTINT.COM
pktint.com
Instructions for ETHERSL.COM:
If you choose to use ETHERSL.COM instead of SLIP8250.COM, the
instructions are exactly the same with one crucial difference. You
will have to DELETE the line "device=*vcd" from the [386Enh] section
of SYSTEM.INI. This will interfere with running regular Windows Comm
applications (such as Crosstalk), and you will get lots of dropped
characters etc. in these applications. This is therefore not
recommended. ETHERSLIP would be loaded as:
ethersl -w 0x62 -h 4 0x03f8 57600
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Configuring Windows 3.1:
a) Make the following modifications to the SYSTEM.INI file [386Enh]
section.
i) List all your COM ports, with their addresses and interrupts.
COM1Base=03F8
COM1Irq=4
COM2Base=02F8
COM2Irq=3
COM3Base=03E8
COM3Irq=5
This can also be done from within Windows - Control Panel,
but double-clicking on the "Ports" icon.
ii) Give the port to which your modem is attached a generous COM buffer
COM1Buffer=10000
iii) Change the COM port AutoAssign value for the COM port that you wish
to use for your modem to ZERO. This is the amount of time that
Windows waits in seconds before handing control of that COM port to
another application. If you use WinQVT/net and then want to switch
from one session to another, and this value is at the default value
of 2 seconds, you are will get a GPF and Windows will crash.
COM1AutoAssign=0
This can also be done from within Windows - Control Panel.
Double-click on 386 Enhanced, and under "Device Contention", set
the device contention for the COM port your modem is on to
"Never Warn"
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Additional notes:
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What to do if you are assigned a different IP address for each
SLIP session?
I am fortunate in that our campus SLIP server assigns each user
a permanent IP address, so I do not have worry about editing QVTNET.INI
each time that I establish a SLIP connection.
If you are assigned a new IP address on every occasion that you dial in,
please try to use BOOTP aware software, and let BOOTP do the
configuration for you. However, QVTnet is not BOOTP aware and RARP
will not work over a SLIP connection. To get QVTNet working in a
situation such as this, you must do the following:
Edit the QVTNET.INI file. Let the [net] section look like this:
[net]
name=
ip=
netmask=255.255.255.0 (or whatever is appropriate for you)
arptime=20
packet_vector=60 (or whatever is appropriate)
Save the changes, and then *write-protect* this file
"attrib +r qvtnet.ini"
Start your slip connection, and *remember* the name and IP address
that you are assigned. Each time you start QVT/net 3.1x, the
general configuration dialog box will open. Enter the name and
IP address and you were assigned for that session, click on [OK],
and you should be up and running. The changes you make will not
be saved, as QVTNET.INI is write-protected.
A more elegant solution to the problem of dynamic SLIP IP address
assignment is provided by Victor Menayang (victor@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu)
Victor uses the program bootpq to semi-automate qvtnet preparation.
Bootpq is used to inquire the assigned IP, which is then saved to a
file called "myip". Another file "noip" is essentially a complete
QVTNET.INI file that lacks the IP address. In the final step "myip"
and "noip" are copied into a single QVTNET.INI file. An example of
Victor's batch file is provided below:
=====================================================
slipper com2
pktint.com
bootpq -i "ip=\"%%s\"" >> myip
bootpq -i "My IP# is: %s"
copy /q net + myip + noip e:\com\qvtnet\qvtnet.ini
del /q myip
@echo off
echo .
echo Ready to run WinQVTnet
=====================================================
For questions and more details about bootpq, please contact Victor
Menayang (victor@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu)
QPC Software is attempting to add BOOTP capability to WinQVT/net.
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How do you use PKTMUX over SLIP?
PKTMUX will not work over the SLIP8250.COM packet driver, and crashes
immediately if used with ETHERSL.COM
PKTMUX will work with C/SLIPPER.EXE, when C/SLIPPER is used in ethernet
simulation mode. An example of this configuration is shown below:
The latest release of PKTMUX is 1.2c; and it is important that you
use this version, if you want to use virtual packet drivers with
applications like Trumpet for Windows (to be released very shortly).
[from AUTOEXEC.BAT]
lh c/slipper com1 vec=65 baud=57600 ether (packet driver)
lh pktmux 5 65 /5 (pktmux loaded for 5 virtual packet drivers)
lh pktdrv 7f 65 (first virtual packet driver used for QVT/net)
lh pktint.com (QVT/net pktint.com)
pktdrv 63 65 (PKTDRV for use in native DOS or WinTrumpet)
Additional virtual packet drivers can be loaded directly from within
Windows 3.1 DOS boxes. For example, my PIF file to load POPmail is
directed to the file "popmail.bat". This is what popmail.bat reads
like:
pktdrv 60 65 loads a virtual packet driver at 0x60
cd \popmail
popmail
cd \
pktdrv 60 /u unloads the packet driver at 0x60
exit causes the DOS window to close
I have similar batch files that load other DOS TCP/IP applications
like PC Gopher. It is my experience that PKTMUX works fine
even if the virtual packet drivers in two independent virtual DOS
sessions, are loaded at the same software interrupt. For example
within two different DOS boxes -- one for POPmail and the other for
Gopher, the virtual packet driver (pktdrv) is loaded at 0x60 in each
instance.
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How much does PKTMUX degrade the performance of C/SLIPPER?
I have a V.32bis/V.42bis modem in a 386-33 running Windows 3.1 with
a reasonably fast video card (ATI Graphics Ultra). Under these
conditions, when I have three virtual packet drivers loaded and
being used as follows:
a) Driver at 0x7f -- QVTNet FTP client session
b) Driver at 0x60 in one DOS Window -- CUTCP tn3270 session
c) Driver at 0x60 in another DOS Window -- Trumpet for DOS
I get FTP transfer rates of 0.8 - 1.0 kb/sec while transferring
compressed files. This rate is comparable to that which I get with
SLIP8250 loaded as a packet driver, and where a single TCP/IP session
is active. If CSLIPPER is used a packet driver and a single session
is active, I get transfer rates of 1.3 - 1.4 kb/sec on the same
files.
While there is about 40% degradation in the performance of SLIPPER,
for me the benefits of being able to use PKTMUX outweigh the
performance hit.
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C/SLIPPER and ethernet simulation mode
In ethernet simulation mode, C/SLIPPER ver 1.3 works with all the
applications that I have tested it with. One or two applications
that required ethernet simulation balked at C/SLIPPER 1.2, but even
these rare problems have been resolved with ver 1.3
When SLIPPER is used in ethernet simulation mode, and used with PKTMUX,
I get some an error message in the QVTNet Console window that reads
"IP:incorrect packet type" or "IP:bad version number". This does not
seem to prevent QVTnet from functioning, although I cannot comment on
loss of performance.
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What can you do if your DOS TCP/IP application does not work with
C/SLIPPER in ethernet simulation mode?
In the rare event that you find a package that does not work with
C/SLIPPER in ethernet simulation mode, first contact the author --
Peter Tattam -- PETER@psychnet.psychol.utas.edu.au, and let him
know. Chances are that he can fix it.
In the meanwhile, you can try the following. I do not know if it is
kosher, but it worked when I had problems with C/SLIPPER ver 1.2
(C/SLIPPER is loaded at 0x62 as described above under the PKTMUX section)
I load ETHERSL.COM at 0x60, run the application and then terminate
ETHERSL.COM
This also works within Windows 3.1 virtual DOS boxes. However a
packet driver like ETHERSL can be used in only one virtual DOS box
at a time.
So for example, here is my batch file to run Grateful Med (a
medical reference retrieval program developed at the National Library
of Medicine).
ethersl -w 0x60 -h 4 0x03f8 57600 loads ETHERSLIP
cd \gm6
search
cd \
termin 0x60 terminates ETHERSLIP
exit closes the DOS box and returns me to Windows
If you use this method, be cautious about one thing -- don't have
any active PKTMUX DOS sessions open at the same time. After closing
the ETHERSL window, you can run your PKTMUX DOS sessions with no
problem. BTW, the example above -- Grateful Med, works with no
problems with C/SLIPPER ver 1.3
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PHONE Script Files:
The documentation that accompany PHONE, provide good instructions on
writing script files to get PHONE to dial SLIP servers other than
the University of Minnesota server. For example here is a script
that I use to dial a CISCO server at the University that I attend.
Background: To start a SLIP connection, I dial our terminal server,
and login with a username and password. After doing so, I start a SLIP
session with the following command "slip username-slip.dialin.cwru.edu",
followed by my password -- again.
Here then is the relevant portion of the PHONE.CMD script file -
#
# CWRU-TS2 SLIP login script by Ashok Aiyar 3/26/93
# Last revised 3/28/93
Procedure Host.CWRU.Login
TimeOut 60 'CWRU-TS2 terminal server is not responding'
Message "CWRU-TS2 SLIP login script -- Version 1.1"
Message 'Waiting for SLIP server to respond'
Quiet ON
Expect 'Verification'
Message 'Request for User Verification Received from CWRU-TS2'
Message 'Sending your user name and password'
Quiet OFF
Expect 'Username:'
Send '%u<'
Expect 'Password:'
Private
Send '%p<'
Reject 'Access denied' 'Your user name or password was not accepted'
TimeOut 30 'SLIP server did not respond to your validation request'
Expect 'CWRU-TS2>'
Send 'SLIP<'
TimeOut 10 'SLIP server did not respond to SLIP command'
Expect 'IP hostname or address:'
Send '%u-slip.dialin.cwru.edu<'
TimeOut 10 'SLIP server did not respond to hostname'
Reject 'Bad IP address' 'Incorrect Hostname'
Expect 'Password:'
Send '%p<'
Reject 'Access denied' 'Password not accepted.'
TimeOut 10
Expect 'Header Compression will match your system'
Message 'Login to CWRU SLIP server successful'
Wait 1.0
EndProcedure Host.CWRU.Login
#
#
Procedure Host.CWRU.LogOut
# Nothing special needs to be done to logout
EndProcedure Host.CWRU.LogOut
#
# End of Script file
#
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How to use packet drivers other than UMSLIP with PHONE?
The quick answer -- there is no "clean" way. Below is a batch file
hack that I wrote to use PHONE with other packet drivers. In this
example, the packet driver is Peter Tattam's CSLIPPER. To use a
batch file like this, you must know the parameters with which you
plan to use the packet driver -- i.e interrupt vector, baud rate,
port address, and IRQ. This batch file requires UMSLIP.COM,
CSLIPPER.EXE, and TERMIN.COM to be in the same directory
or in your path ...
All that the BATCH file does is to let you dial the SLIP connection
using PHONE, load the appropriate packet driver, hangup the
connection, and unload the driver when you are done ...
-- being CWRUSLIP.BAT --
@echo off
rem this batch file is an ugly hack of U. of Minn. "SLIP.BAT"
rem awaiting a version of C/SLIPPER that can directly interact
rem with PHONE
rem CWRUSLIP.BAT file is used with PHONE.EXE to start a SLIP
rem connection on CWRU-TS2
rem last modified 3/28/93 -- Ashok Aiyar
@echo off
cls
goto start
:start
if %1. == ?. goto help
if %1. == help. goto help
if %1. == setup. goto setup
if %1. == dial. goto forceD
if %1. == hangup. goto forceH
if %1. == quit. goto forceH
if %1. == HELP. goto help
if %1. == SETUP. goto setup
if %1. == DIAL. goto forceD
if %1. == QUIT. goto forceH
goto bogus
goto unload
:forceH
termin 0x60
umslip >nul
phone force hangup
goto unload
:slipper
termin 0x60
REM the following line must be changed to reflect the COM port,
REM IRQ, baud rate, and software interrupt
lh c:\packet\cslipper com1 vec=60 baud=57600 ether
goto end
:forceD
termin 0x60
umslip >nul
phone force dial
goto slipper
:setup
termin 0x60
umslip >nul
phone setup
goto help
:unload
termin 0x60
goto end
:bogus
echo %1 is not a valid command.
echo Try "cwruslip help" for a list of valid commands
echo.
:help
echo --------------------------------------------------------------
echo Case Western Reserve University SLIP Setup
echo using Univ. of Minnesota PHONE
echo --------------------------------------------------------------
echo cwruslip setup modem settings, phone number, username etc.
echo.
echo cwruslip dial DIAL and establish the SLIP connection
echo cwruslip quit HANGUP the phone and unload the driver
echo cwruslip help this screen
echo.
:end
-- end CWRUSLIP.BAT --
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Where to Get What.....
Peter Tattam's programs are archived at ftp.utas.edu.au (C/SLIPPER,
and the Trumpet set of programs).
WinQVT/net is generally archived at most Windows FTP sites,
including ftp.cica.indiana.edu
NCSA Telnet is archived at ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu
NuPOP is archived at ftp.acns.nwu.edu
POPmail/PC, SLIPDISK, PHONE, and PC Gopher are archived at
boombox.micro.umn.edu
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